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      <title>Don’t Let the Mesa Laboratory Die</title>
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        <![CDATA[I.M. Pei’s imperiled research center in Colorado is a shared legacy for both scientists and architects, and it’s worth defending.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/18224</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:32 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The White House Ballroom and the Phantom  of Modernization</title>
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        <![CDATA[The so-called classicism of President Trump’s White House ballroom is less about style and more about a failure to communicate, writes Iman Ansari.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/18067</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Chinese and American Architects’ Shifting Relationship</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Chinese architects behind some American firms’ biggest projects are poised to step onto the global stage, writes Matthew Allen.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Building, America: What's Missing in Architecture Schools</title>
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        <![CDATA[The disappearance of a word fundamental to architecture rings loud in schools that teach the discipline, writes Andrew Holder.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:23:40 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Building Attractions: High-Rise Thrills</title>
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        <![CDATA[Catering to tourists and to developers’ demands, towers around the world are increasingly resembling theme parks, writes Nathan Eddy.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Comic Strip Criticism</title>
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        <![CDATA[Are architects too serious? Caricatures and cartoons might offer a way to enliven discourse and elicit a few laughs, writes Gabriele Neri.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17688</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:20:19 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Buyer’s Market: Public Housing Agencies Find Opportunities in Market-Rate Buildings</title>
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        <![CDATA[The acquisition of existing buildings has emerged as an increasingly important tactic for nonprofits as an affordable-housing solution.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17593</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Skyline for One: Building Tall in Europe</title>
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        <![CDATA[The backlash against some of Europe’s most controversial towers has helped preserve its low-rise architectural character, writes Nathan Eddy.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17520</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Save the Roundhouse? A Case for Demolition</title>
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        <![CDATA[While preservationists endeavor to adapt and reuse Philadelphia’s former police headquarters, Diana Lind argues for a clean slate.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17341</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Erasure, Reconstruction, and Standardization: Architecture After Conflict</title>
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        <![CDATA[Wartime destruction, and the rebuilding that follows, can diminish architectural complexity, writes Alberto Martínez García.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17342</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>(Don't) Roll Credits: In Defense of the Cinema</title>
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        <![CDATA[Movie theaters might seem expendable in the streaming age, but they’re essential civic spaces that must be protected.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:53:42 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Museum After Spectacle</title>
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        <![CDATA[Thirty years after the ‘Bilbao Effect,’ museums are shunning exuberant form-making in favor of thoughtful programming that engages new audiences.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:28:20 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Data Creep: The Geography of Artificial Intelligence</title>
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        <![CDATA[The energy demands of AI are driving a construction boom for data centers, illuminating the long-obscured physical network that powers our cloud-based world.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17196</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Line of Discontent: Saudi Arabia's Linear Folly</title>
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        <![CDATA[Historian Enrique Ramirez looks to the long history of linear cities to understand Saudi Arabia's desert experiment.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17138</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:20:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Shingled No More: The Demise of East Hampton’s Otto Spaeth House</title>
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        <![CDATA[The loss of a 1955 Modernist gem demonstrates that preservation cannot rely on the kindness of strangers, even of the super-rich.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17095</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:02:37 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Stadium Complex: The True Cost of Sports Megadevelopments</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: As proposals expand in scale and scope, and public spending increases, large-scale pro sports developments fall flat as gestures of urban goodwill.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16986</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:08:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Safe Space: A Pair of New Holocaust Museums Illustrate a Shift in the Architecture of Atrocity</title>
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        <![CDATA[Memorials and museums are moving from confrontation to comfort, diluting the past's potency.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16933</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:04:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Under One Roof: The Case for Indoor Public Spaces</title>
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        <![CDATA[Expansive and unprogrammed indoor public spaces offer an antidote to the commercialization of contemporary cities.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16934</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:03:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Civic Renaissance: Rethinking Municipal Centers</title>
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        <![CDATA[Throughout the U.S., cities are revitalizing their aging Beaux-Arts and Midcentury Modern civic centers through community-driven design.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16935</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:02:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: Reforming U.S. building codes to permit single-stair apartment buildings would facilitate cost-effective and higher-density housing.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16880</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 00:09:12 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New Frontiers: Praxis and the Pitfalls of Techno-Utopias</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: An ambitious city-building initiative expresses conflicting desires through architecture, writes Pansy Schulman.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16764</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Destructive Rebirth of the Pyramid of Tirana</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: MVRDV’s transformation of the pyramid into a symbol of Albanian progress misses its mark, argues Skender Luarasi.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:19:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>On Preservation: Heritage, History, and Exclusion</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: Susan Nigra Snyder and George E. Thomas argue that historic districting is a form of social injustice.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16703</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Las Vegas Sphere and the Promise of a New Earth</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: Izzy Kornblatt looks to the Enlightenment to understand the lavishly immersive $2.3 billion venue.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16611</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Revisionist History: Turning A Symbol of Oppression into a "House of Freedom"</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: MVRDV's revamping of the Pyramid of Tirana—a former monument to an Albanian dictator—demonstrates how structures can be maintained, but their significance transformed.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>December 2023 Editor’s Letter</title>
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        <![CDATA[The December issue explores spaces for the arts in the context of shifting conceptions of culture.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16614</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Rethinking the Classical</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: Architect and historian Kyle Dugdale argues for a shift in how we recall, retell, and reimagine the story of classical architecture.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16577</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Sans Spectacle: The Studio Museum in Harlem Confronts Its New Future</title>
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        <![CDATA[Forum: The Studio Museum will soon debut its new David Adjaye-designed home, but the institution was never about one individual—or one building.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16529</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Introducing Forum: A New Column Dedicated to Discussion and Debate</title>
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        <![CDATA[Our September issue marks the launch of a new print section devoted to discussing and confronting the complex issues faced by architects today.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16468</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 01:27:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Gothic Shadow: On SHoP’s Brooklyn Supertall</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Brooklyn Tower forces the public to grapple with the genre of the supertall.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 01:26:02 -0400</pubDate>
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